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verb
- 1. dress up or decorate gaudily: literary "a uniform bedizened with resplendent medals"
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Bedizen descends from the older, now obsolete, verb disen, which means "to dress a distaff with flax" and which came to English by way of Middle Dutch. The spelling of disen eventually became dizen, and its meaning expanded to cover the "dressing up" of things other than distaffs.
Bedizen definition: to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner. See examples of BEDIZEN used in a sentence.
Bedizen means to decorate yourself or something else to the max — in an over-the-top flashy style. Picture big jewels and gold bling.
noun. Word origin. C17: from be- + obsolete dizen to dress up, of uncertain origin. You may also like. Word Frequency. bedizen in American English. (biˈdaɪzən ; bɪˈdaɪzən ; also, bɪˈdɪzən ) verb transitive. Rare. to dress or decorate in a cheap, showy way. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
Jun 2, 2024 · bedizen (third-person singular simple present bedizens, present participle bedizening, simple past and past participle bedizened) To ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery. Synonym: embellish
Define bedizen. bedizen synonyms, bedizen pronunciation, bedizen translation, English dictionary definition of bedizen. tr.v. be·di·zened , be·di·zen·ing , be·di·zens To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner. be·di′zen·ment n.
Synonyms for BEDIZEN: adorn, decorate, drape, dress, bedeck, ornament, trim, grace; Antonyms of BEDIZEN: scar, disfigure, mar, spoil, deface, display, simplify, strip.
